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“I was a cold star and so I was left in the darkest parts of heavens to shine brightly.”
no one plays me. no one gets into my head unless i let them. and i rarely let them.
Renata Shakirova and Philipp Stepin in The Sleeping Beauty (Mariinsky Ballet)
“I never wanted a quiet, sensible sort of love. I wanted to be devoured.”— Beau Taplin, “The Devouring” (via thelovejournals)
the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel
colorized by me
“Grief is a circular staircase. I have lost you.”— from “The Five Stages of Grief” by Linda Pastan, in The Five Stages of Grief (via cgcpoems)
Grief is like glitter; No matter how much you try and tidy it up you’re never going to get rid of it all. You’re always going to find bits of it.
- George Shelley, George Shelley: learning to grieve
“You hold an absence
at your center,
as if it were a life.”
— Richard Brostoff, from “Grief”